I don’t really have the time or energy to write much. Very sad meeting with the Floyd family today. I just listened for about an hour. I’m very sympathetic and a good listener. Actually, it was really hard to hear the family though the masks, but I shook my head like I heard everything.
I didn’t say much. It worked. As my team repeatedly says, “you’re really great when you don’t speak.” So I listened quietly and was saddened by the meeting. It’s still hard to believe what happened to Mr. Floyd and subsequently what happened throughout America. But it was ok. There was some hope that something good can come out of this horrific event.
I won’t go to the funeral tomorrow. Someone told me I would be a disruption…. I’m not sure why. I heard a few different reasons …. the secret service detail could be difficult, maybe I would get a tough question from a reporter and not know what to say, I could get confused and push someone, I might get booed by a “woke mob”, it’s too big of a crowd, I might accidentally fall asleep…. I’m not sure which was the deciding factor. Probably the sleep thing. That’s fair. Warm church, music, long speeches. I have fallen asleep in some pretty important speeches, quite a few from Obama…
I recorded a message for the funeral. It took 41 takes to get it right. A personal best!
Come on, man.